In fact, the Hong Kong bosses here also know what they are making up, and they can sell bad movies to the mainland and Southeast Asia with a shy face, and they want to sell bad movies to the United States very much, but they can't find a way. If you want to say that you don't see the income of blockbusters made up by big directors in the red continent, it is impossible, and now when I asked, the other party asked back, but Yang Shoucheng was still stable.

"Jack is planning several big productions, and I think if they are released in the United States, the box office is also guaranteed." Yang Shoucheng said.

This is not a lie, with Jack's years of accumulation, plus videotapes, VCDs, and DVDs to cultivate a fan group, even if it is not released in North American theaters, the release of DVDs may be profitable.

But how could Thomas look up to such small and hard-earned money? This is all done by Columbia's subsidiary, and Yang Shoucheng said this at a bad time, Jack's "Around the World in Eighty Days" has just lost money at the box office, and he is blowing Jack's popularity at this time, even with Thomas's city government, he subconsciously feels that this guy is trying to cheat money.

But this can't be blamed on Yang Shoucheng, there are so many people in Hong Kong who have box office appeal in Hollywood, and only Jack Cheng fell into his hands, so Yang Shoucheng had to ask hard, anyway, there will be no less meat if he asks, if the other party has a brain cramp and agrees, it is that he has earned it.

"Ah, speaking of which," Thomas said abruptly changing the subject, "Mr. Shen, Stephen's new movie "Kung Fu," he made random comparisons, as if he was really familiar with the Chinese name, "We have scheduled a release for Christmas." Colombia takes this film very seriously, and although we released it later than in Asia, it will not be a few days later. ”

Shen Zhenghui touched his face. "The distribution of Kung Fu in Asia was done by Sony." "So I don't know about that." ”

"Oh, isn't this film your investment?" Thomas pretended to be surprised, "I've heard that the release of Kasuga in Japan is also mixed up. ”

Several other people present already felt a little embarrassed, especially Mr. Xiang. The eldest brother felt that his face had been cut, but since he was talking about another pride in Hong Kong, the eldest brother also wanted to show that he had a good relationship with Zhou Xingxing. "Will it be released after Christmas?" He asked Shen Zhenghui, "Why is it later than our release?" I remember that Zhou Xingxing's film was made much earlier than us. ”

It is indeed much earlier, Shen Zhenghui is very impressed by this. The SARS epidemic in 2003 caused Zhou Xingxing's filming plan to be postponed again and again. So much so that his old partner Uncle Da missed "Kung Fu", and Miyamoto only appeared in Shen Zhenghui's crew after completing the filming of "Kung Fu", even if there are too many special effects shots in kung fu that require post-production, it is quite late to arrange for it to be released in December at the end of the year. Although it is consistent with the historical "Kung Fu". But Zhou Xingxing in history did not shoot "The Green Hornet".

Stephen is also very cautious about the choice of schedule. Although we have repeatedly lobbied him for the summer vacation, he seems to be more interested in the Asian market. Thomas tilted his head, "The Christmas file is also very good, and he can also take a good rest, in fact, with the popularity he has accumulated with "The Green Hornet", as long as the publicity keeps up, the release time doesn't matter." ”

The devil believes you! Every year, the summer vacation is a day when blockbusters gather, and this year, such as "Shrek 2", "Spider-Man", and "Harry Potter 3", are all released in the summer. In addition, there are also "Spy 2", "I. If Zhou Xingxing bumps into the arrogant and arrogant films with high expectations, who knows what will happen in the end. He will definitely not be satisfied with tens of millions of box office items, from "Shaolin Football" to "The Green Hornet", Zhou Xingxing has also been cultivated enough appetite by the market, and he is no longer just thinking about it as a director.

Another reason for the late release is that the film has to be reviewed in the mainland, "Kung Fu" introduced funds from three mainland private institutions in order to be released in the mainland, and cut the box office of the mainland market into these three as a big cake, in order to make it easier to censor.

This hard work was not in vain, "Kung Fu" was finally able to be released simultaneously in Asia, and the release time in Europe and the United States was about a week later than that in Asia, which was just convenient for Zhou Xingxing to go to the United States after completing the promotion in Asia.

Although he was very angry, everyone present was very interested in Zhou Xingxing's movie. As everyone knows, Zhou Xingxing is now the only box office savior in the Hong Kong market. The films he starred in have no possibility of failure in the current Hong Kong film market.

So Mr. Xiang spoke first, coughed and asked, "Mr. Shen, how much do you think the film Stars can have in the world this week?" ”

"The world can't estimate it." Shen Zhenghui shook his head, "But I shouldn't lose to "The Green Hornet". He glanced at Thomas.

Thomas was already laughing, "Do you think it can exceed 120 million at the box office in North America?" ”

Jack felt like he had been hit by an arrow in the knee.

"It's probably not too big," Mr. Shen said, "and it mainly depends on how the market in Asia is." ”

In the Asian market, the mainland and Hong Kong together are only 20 million US dollars, and the key is to look at Japan. Thomas was noncommittal.

The eyes of the people next to him were red after hearing this. But the cost of "Kung Fu" was as high as 20 million US dollars, and Zhou Xingxing gave up the salary and converted it into capital to invest in the cost, and finally took a share. So strictly speaking, it is possible that the cost of "Kung Fu" is 50 million. This is not counting the publicity investment, such a cost of $120 million at the box office in the United States can only be regarded as barely holding on to the capital, and in the end it must rely on the market outside North America to make money.

After listening to Shen Zhenghui and Thomas's confident expression of the box office of "Kung Fu", Jack Cheng also began to feel uneasy in his heart, and now he can only secretly pray, hoping that this "New Police Story" can save a little face.

In other words, the name "New Police Story" does not match the content of this movie at all, except that the protagonist is also called Chen Jiaju. His status is barely a retired police officer, but in the end, he agreed to call it because in addition to playing the nostalgic card, Yinghuang also hopes to use this film to become a hit, if it is a hit. Continue to launch sequels such as "New Police Story 2", continue to let Jack become the starring role, as for the story, just make up a new one, and be able to consume the popularity accumulated before. So Yang Shoucheng said that Jack Cheng temporarily shelved his script and used the name first.

And when this film was released in the United States and Europe, it was directly called "Hurricane Rescue" (Asian version). Although Ning Huan played a lot of tricks, he could never escape the eyes of the discerning people, and they easily found the similarities between the two scripts. But that's pretty disciplined. It seems that there are at least a lot of unique ideas and Asian characteristics. Instead of looking low like Liu Tianwang's remake.

After a nightmare of June and July, Big Brother finally ushered in the release of "New Police Story". He didn't even need the producer and distributor to come forward, and he took the initiative to start promoting it. The premiere was in Hong Kong, then I went to places like Puhai, Pyeonggyong, Tokyo, Seoul, and even Singapore and Manila. Big brother is going to go. He simply did his best to the extreme. Whether it is an interview or a meeting, he is very good, at least he has a good attitude, and he talks about the director and crew as if he is the father of a person in charge. However, instead of exalting himself and belittling others, he desperately praised the director, saying that he was the soul of the film and his humble retreat.

"Because I'm very different in this film, it's very likely that you will say after watching this film." Eh, why did Jack become like this? It's not at all the same as he used to be. But I'm sure you'll still say it after you read it. Although it was different, he still had to be good. Jack Cheng said this in front of Shen Zhenghui at the premiere, and took the initiative to give Shen Zhenghui a smile and ask him if this was the case.

Shen Zhenghui naturally showed a humble side, praising how the eldest brother respected the director and made efforts and sacrifices in this film. In short, during the publicity, Shen Zhenghui felt that he had not heard any such thing as a sensual person before, and he had not heard himself tell lies. In the end, he almost believed that Jack Cheng didn't mess with him in this film.

Under the shroud of the poor results of "Around the World in 80 Days", it is not surprising that Jack Cheng took the initiative to play the card of directing, and it is gratifying that the audience may have come out of the shadow of the previous movie, or Shen Zhenghui attracted their attention, maybe it was the cameos of Zhang Yinghou and Liang Yingdi that stimulated their interest, and when the box office results of the first week came out, everyone was relieved, and the Japanese box office was 1.8 billion yen, which almost announced that it was impossible to lose money, The box office of 18 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong in the first week, and the box office of 24 million yuan in mainland China, announced that Jack Cheng has at least turned over from the bad film blow of "Around the World in 80 Days" in Asia.

The box office attracted the attention of the producers, and the professional reviews of the film critics stirred up Jack's heart. Many filmmakers have commented that Jack Cheng has given up his previous film style, and he is quite restrained and concise in the middle of this film, making everyone feel that Jack's image has completely changed, and the shadow of Jack Cheng in the past suddenly disappeared from him, and he seems to have become Steven? Siegel, of course, more people say he's like an Asian version of Liam Neeson. But it's not accurate to say that Jack Cheng imitated Lian Nissen's acting skills in this movie, and when he was angry and made aggressive moves because of his daughter, he could still see the shadow of the young Jack Cheng, yes, it was the young Jack Cheng, and there was a stimulating reaction of young courage in his bones, with a certain primitive love, rather than the amusing style of juggling and preaching that even he himself did not approve of.

The most smooth thing about the whole film is that Chen Jiaju has no preachy dialogue, and all his strength in the movie is used in battle. This kind of parent-child film with action as a selling point is much better to use facts as a teaching than to use preaching. Twins' appearance in this movie is also remarkable, the two of them are still young, and they vividly express the rebellious girl who is not too far away from their age. Although it is not deliberately set that virgins will not die, debauchery will die such a humorous scene. But in the end, after Gillian was rescued, she unfortunately died alone in the Philippine tourist bus hijacking case. At the time of death. Shouting "I don't want to travel to the Philippines again!" It can be regarded as achieving Ning Huan's ultimate mocking purpose. But at the time of the official screening, the Philippines was replaced with the name of a country that no one had ever heard of, in order to avoid triggering a protest in the Philippines. But from the various details in the film, it is still easy to see who this film satirizes.

Of course. This kind of irony may not be immediately understood, but in a few years, the film may be praised as a prophetic film. There are two kinds of prophecies in this world, one is like this, the version ahead of the times, which satirizes reality like a god; The other is Mr. Chen's "Wuji", which also satirizes reality like a god. But it seems to be in the wrong direction.

With Jack Cheng changing the way of acting in the film, Mr. Chen playing the opposite role in the movie, Twins being very cute in the movie and a series of promotions. "New Police Story" shows strong stamina. It seems that the publicity is not fierce enough, and the previous various gossip incidents have been hyped by entertainment newspapers, including Jack Cheng's groping pig hand, the director giving lessons to twins in the middle of the night, and so on. It seems that they are not satisfied. In the end, Young Master Long was also implicated.

Yang Shoucheng guards the home field of Hong Kong, he can be said to be familiar with this kind of thing, Hong Kong citizens are under round after round of gossip and hype, helping to raise the box office of "New Police Story", and soon this film surpassed Jack's previous Hong Kong film "Spy Maze" 30 million results, and went straight to the goal of 40 million in the third week, I feel that it seems that it is not difficult for Hong Kong to get a box office of 50 million.

At the same time, the box office on the mainland side also reached a height of 60 million yuan. However, the producers seem to be more interested in Japan, and the release in the United States is far away. The Japanese box office is the hope that the movie can recover its cost in a short period of time, and the Japanese box office has not lived up to expectations, reaching the threshold of 3 billion yen since the third week, and it is no longer a problem to calculate the preservation of capital. Propaganda continues to work hard, and every next cent is a net profit. The U.S. market has also become a big pie.

"Infernal Affairs" worked hard, and in the end it didn't make as much money as the globally released "New Police Story". Jack Cheng once again consolidated his status as a Chinese superstar, and the box office popularity throughout Asia naturally spread to other places. Both the United States and Europe have accelerated the pace of film distribution and stepped up their efforts. After Columbia came out at the box office in the first week, it made it clear that it could be scheduled for October. I don't know what their considerations were, maybe it was simply because Colombia didn't have a film schedule in October.

Of course, for this film is not without opposition. Shen Zhenghui's mainland role added in the movie is generally considered to be flattering the mainland. Those who sit in the sky do not believe that the mainland's armed police are better than the Flying Tigers in Hong Kong, nor do they believe that mainland diplomats can be so tricky abroad. As yellow-skinned people, they don't seem to be able to control the status of the five hooligans in the rivers and lakes. In the movie, there is a clip of Chen Jiaju exchanging experiences with the armed police from the mainland as a representative of Hong Kong, and during the exercise, the Flying Tigers worked desperately to deal with the heavily armed thugs. As a result, the armed police on the mainland side directly dispatched mortars and rocket launchers, and the Hong Kong police knelt down.

This is one of the jokes of the veteran military and military houses on the Internet many years later, and this short clip is probably only a professional can understand these meanings. Chen Jiaju switched from the work habits of the Hong Kong police because of his daughter's abduction and trafficking to the work form of the mainland armed police, which can be regarded as paving the way for the change of Jack's performance style. Lest it be said that it is a direct plagiarism of "Hurricane Rescue", Chinese mainland as the background of the movie played a huge role in this movie, which is why many people did not like this movie in the end, and this also became a flattering crime for Jack. When the Weibo era of the Internet came, the eldest brother was hacked and hacked because of the so-called "flattery", including his lust and his son finally became a joke. But as far as this movie is concerned, in the end, even Jack himself has to admit that this is his best movie.

He doesn't read much, in addition to being able to play, it is very difficult to embody acting skills, even when he is 60 years old in the future, he admits in his autobiography that reading too little is his weakness. But in this film, his acting skills got rid of the previous juggling and amusement, and the whole person tended to be introverted.

If you want to make a comparison, for example, his Senior Brother Hong was also a funny film of Yishui back then, and he also played a stupid and stupid, or a little clever fat man. But in "Slaying the Wolf", he plays the boss of the underworld and is also full of aura. Of course, this may also be one of his daily forms.

Uncle Da has always been a funny image, but in the early days, he also played a perverted underworld boss. Shen Zhenghui remembered this film because Uncle Da had to kill a subordinate every time he met with his subordinates in it, and he was bloodthirsty to the extreme, and the switching of different character images was proof of his acting skills.

And Jack Cheng played a completely different image in this movie than he used to, but this is not completely different, many people can find the shadow of Jack Cheng when he was young, and he was still making feature films instead of funny kung fu movies. (To be continued......)